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Considered in his main period to be "the most Expressionist of the Expressionists", Meidner was born in Bernstadt, studied painting at the Academy of Breslau and lived in Berlin as a drawer of fashion illustrations. He travelled to Paris, seeing Van Gogh's work and that of the Fauves. On his return to Berlin, he enjoyed a great reputation on exhibiting his works, already marked by the language of Expressionism. In the twenties he dedicated himself fundamentally to the portrait and Biblical and Jewish subject matter. Afterwards he left off painting and dedicated himself to writing articles for magazines. During the Second World War he fled to England, later returning to Germany; practically forgotten, he was recuperated with a series of anthological exhibitions, as an essential figure of German Expressionism.
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